(20140) Costitx Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 23 August 1996 by M. Blasco at Costitx.
The village of Costitx is the geographical zero point of the island of Majorca, a place of great archaeological importance and home of the Astronomical Observatory of Majorca, where the minor planet was discovered.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 4, #9, 5), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Costitx is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Costitx is 3.53 au from the Sun and 3.39 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20140 |
| Provisional designation | 1996 QT1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 9.85 km (#5,194 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0960 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.55 |
| Orbital period | 5.65 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.17 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.78 – 3.57 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.123 |
| Inclination | 8.79° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.78 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.